Lighting system for motor-vehicles.



C. T. LEMON.

LiGHTING SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, 1916. T 2:10.335.

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Patented Dec. 26, 1916 cnrran STATES PATENT orrrcn.

CHARLES T. LEMON, OF RIPLEY, OHIO.

LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR MOTOR-VEHICLES.

Application flledJanuary 12, 1916. Serial No. 71,746.

To alt whom a?! may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES T. LEMON, a citizen of the Unite States, residing at Ripley, in the county of Brown and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvenients in Lighting Systems for'Motor- Vehicles, of which the ,following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in circuit closers and has particular application to a circuit closing device for use in [rear ends of the vehicle so that the vicinity in the, rear of the vehicle may be illumi' nated to facilitate backing.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth in and falling within the scope of the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an enlarged sectional view through the gear shifting lever switch. Fig. 2 is a similar View taken at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top plan view showing the posi tion of the switch upon the slotted segment of the gear shifting lever.

l7 designates the gear shifting lever working within an H-slot 18 formed ina segmental plate 19 and mounted upon the plate 19 adjacent to the reverse portion of the H-slot 18 is a switch comprising a casing 20 preferably, although not necessarily, formed of insulating material. Arranged within the casing 20 adjacent to the upper end thereof is a transverse shaft 21 having one end thereof projecting through the side wall of the casing adjacent to the slot 18--and fixed upon the shaft 21 and disposed within the casing 20 is a switch arm, 22, while mounted within the casing 21 adjacent to the ends of the path of movement of the arm" 22 are contact segments 23 and 24 respectively. Secured to the projecting end of the shaft 21 is a Y-shaped arm 25 adapted to be engaged by a pin 26 secured to the gear shifting lever 17 when such lever is moved to reversing position. Normally, the switch arm 22 is in engagement with the contact 23 and the Y-shapcd arm 25 in a position to be engaged by the pin 26 when the lever 17 is moved to reversing position. Upon the movement of the lever 17 to reversing positron, the pin enters the space between'the limbs of the Y-shaped arm and swings such arm from the full line position in Fig. 1 to the dotted line position, thereby rotating the shaft 21 and swinging the switch arm 22 out of engagement with the contact 23 and into engagement with the contact 24-. When the lever 17 is moved out of reversing position, the parts of the switch are restored to normal position.

lVhile I have herein shown and described the preferred form of my invention by way of illustration, I wish it to be understood.

that I do not limit or confine myself to the precise details of construction herein described and delineated, as modification and variation may be made within the scene of the claim without departing from the spirit 01 the invention.

I claim:

The combination with the reversing lever of a motor vehicle, of a circuit closer comprising casing, a horizontal shaft journaled in said casing and having one end projecting through the casing, a switch arm secured to said shaft and depending there from within the casing and capable of swinging movement, contact segments disposed at the ends of the path of moven'ient of the switch arm and adapted to he E gaged thereby, a Y-shaped arm fixed to t outer end of said shaft, and a on said. reversing lever adapted to enter Y- shaped arm in the movement of the reversing lever to reversing position to swing said Y-shaped arm, said. shaft and said. switch arm. I i

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES T. LEMON. Witnesses:

G. V. YmRsLnY, J. F. WonK.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented De 26 1916. 

